This is an analysis of the poem Cette Reine Qui N'Eût Qu'Un Château Pour Retraite… [xli À L] that begins with:
Cette Reine qui n’eût qu’un château pour retraite,
Prisonnière çà bas, et Princesse là haut,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX X XXbX X ccXc X baXX X XXXX X XXXc X XXXc X XcXX X XaXX X XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110 100111011 1011101101011 10110111010 1 11110111110 10111111011 110110111100 111100011011 1 1011110001 01011001001 10111010110 1100110010111 1 10100111110 1011111110 110111111110 111110101010 1 111111011000 101011100100 100110110100 100111111 1 1011111111111 111001011001 110010110011 111111110 1 111001111111 11110111100 100111100111 111101111110 1 1100111100 110111111001 111111110010 101001110001 1 111101111 1111110101 111011110 1110100110 1 101111110110 111101110 11011101111 111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, par, son, de, un, une are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, elle, une are repeated.
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- Analysis of Le Marinier Qui Va De Naufrage En Naufrage… [lxxxi À Xc]
